Senior Reservoir Engineer Job Aberdeen area,Aberdeen City Scotland UK,Engineering

Location: Aberdeen City

Aberdeen – hybrid working set up of 3 days per week in the office and 2 days per week from home Inside IR35 – PAYE set up Until end of year initially and will then be renewed further

A Senior Reservoir Engineer is required to work for an operator based in Aberdeen on a long term contract that will be hybrid working

Purpose of Role:

Reservoir Engineer within the UKBU Operated by Others multi-disciplinary subsurface team.
Deliver opportunities for production enhancement and resource additions by influencing the operator and joint venture partners, underpinned by robust subsurface technical work
Responsible for multiple assets across the OBO portfolio

Areas of Accountability, Responsibility and Competence:

As the Senior Reservoir Engineer, you will provide subsurface decision support for non-operated assets, framing key decisions, identifying critical uncertainties and providing clear recommendations to management.
Provide independent technical assurance and challenge of operator evaluations, focusing on uncertainties and assumptions material to value and decision quality.
Develop and maintain a company technical position through integrated subsurface evaluation.
As the Senior Reservoir Engineer, you will build technical alignment between the company, operators and co-venturers to enable effective decision making and maximise value to the company.
Define and deliver reservoir engineering work programs in support of business strategy across multiple assets.
Identify, mature and influence the operator to deliver opportunities for production enhancement and resource growth .
Maintain production forecasts in support of mid and long term business plans
As the Senior Reservoir Engineer, you will interface and leverage technical expertise to influence subsurface team priorities and work programs.
Represent the company at external joint venture workshops, subsurface work groups and technical committee meetings

Daily tasks include:

Development of technical recommendations to support subsurface, asset and investment decisions
Generation of production forecasts to support key business decisions using the appropriate tools e.g. analogue, DCA, material balance, simulation models
Review, challenge and assurance of operator reservoir engineering evaluations and recommendations
Analysis and integration of production, pressure, fluid and surveillance data to identify opportunities, risks and key uncertainties
Evaluation of production enhancement and new well opportunities.
Reserves assessments.
Monitoring and assisting with specialists and contractors to manage reservoir engineering projects.
Reservoir engineering input to internal and external business approvals, partner engagements and technical committee meetings.
The postholder may be required to join the emergency response rota should this become a requirement of the position.

Core Technical Experience

As the Senior Reservoir Engineer, you will have a fully developed technical skill set
Expert in several anchor skills. Thoroughly understands technology and how it supports the business.
As the Senior Reservoir Engineer, you will have expertise in different aspects of reservoir engineering e.g. field development, simulation, material balance, pressure transient analysis, fluid properties, decline curve analysis, reserve evaluations.
Identifies, develops, executes and evaluates business opportunities
Experience of critically reviewing and assuring technical evaluations
Demonstrated ability to influence technical and business decisions across multidisciplinary teams and joint venture environments
As the Senior Reservoir Engineer, you will have the ability to integrate subsurface, wells, facilities, operational and commercial considerations into technical recommendations.
Sound working knowledge of industry software packages

Qualifications

MSc in reservoir engineering or a related subject.

Personal Characteristics

Puts forward own views credibly and persuasively, linking communications with desired outcomes
Listens actively while guiding others towards positive communication outcomes, considering other perspectives
Looks for opportunities to develop others, providing constructive and timely…